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Comsteria recommends Canva for smartphone video production

Canva is a Smartphone Video Essential

If you watch Comsteria’s Smartphone Video Show every Friday lunchtime from 1pm, you’ll know how much we love Canva. It’s one of the most powerful design tools we’ve come across and offers outstanding value for money. For many users, the free features will be more than enough, helping them create stunning looking visuals at high speed, with a really smart, easy to use interface and workflow. It works in your browser but in our opinion Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago
Smartphone Video Show

Comsteria’s Smartphone Video Show – Live Every Friday

Join Colin Kelly and Emma Baker from Comsteria live every Friday lunchtime on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Twitter for the Smartphone Video Show. From 1pm each Friday you can get the latest news, tips and advice from all things smartphone in a live show, dedicated to small business owners and communications professionals. You can ask questions through the live chat and receive instant answers to any smartphone video queries you might have. There will be Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago
Smartphone Video Training Webinar

Smartphone Video Training Webinar

Tickets are available now for Emma Baker’s Smartphone Video Production webinar on Thursday 22 April. The session will run from 0930-1330 and will be delivered via Zoom. Participant numbers will be capped at a maximum of 8, to ensure you get plenty of opportunities to ask questions and received personalised, tailored advice on your smartphone video set up. Emma will take you through her tried and tested framework to plan, edit and shoot high impact, Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago

Start Your Own Podcast – Live Webinar

Podcasting is at the heart of what we do here at Comsteria. With our roots in radio broadcasting, it’s natural that we’d enjoy publishing our own regular podcast as well as helping organisations and brands of all shapes and sizes with theirs. Now, on Wednesday 28 April 2021, you can Join Colin Kelly for a live, 3 hour podcasting workshop. This session is aimed at beginners and those who recently started a podcast. You’ll learn Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago
Burger King kitchen tweet

Don’t Hire A Smart Arse

You’ve seen the Burger King ‘kitchen’ tweet. They’ve finally done the right thing and deleted it, after persisting far longer than they should have. ‘But you have to read the context..there’s more to it..don’t you understand…we’re on your side!’ was the mantra while they actually argued one on one with many women asking them to take it down. On International Women’s Day. Then you get the ‘social media/PR gurus’ popping up saying ‘well it’s got Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago
How should your business use artificial intelligence?

How Will Your Business Use Artificial Intelligence?

The Apple Store has to be the most over-staffed retail environment I’ve ever seen. All these ‘Geniuses’ spend the majority of their day giving extremely basic tech support. The answers, the tutorials, everything you could possibly want to know about any of their products already exists all over the internet and is freely available. If they wanted, Apple could take the combined knowledge of all its staff and build an artificial intelligence system to deal Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago

Rough Guide To Live Streaming

Whether it’s a quick ‘thought leadership’ style chat straight from a mobile phone onto Facebook Live or a Chamber of Commerce broadcasting their virtual awards night with several cameras, more and more organisations are getting involved in live streaming. It’s a natural progression from the emphasis on video we’ve seen in the last few years. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Linkedin (by invite only) all allow various forms of live video broadcast. How do you Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago

The Best Free Video Editor for Business Video

I’m quite fussy about the video editing apps I recommend. There are so many of them in the app store or at Google Play but there aren’t many that I use in my smartphone video training. For years the only free app I recommended was iMovie. But now I would definitely add VN (Vlog Now) to that and I’d argue that it’s the best free video editor available for your smartphone. Why VN is better Read more

By Emma Baker, ago
Web sites that only do one thing

A website that does one thing, really well.

The best website is the one that does what you need it to do. In the early days of the World Wide Web, it wasn’t so easy for websites to do many of the things we now take for granted. Images took 10 seconds to load (on a fast connection), high quality video was out of the question and some businesses wondered if they even needed an internet presence at all. One of the best Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago
On Demand Social Media Training

How Can I Grow My Reach On Social Media?

That’s an interesting question and one we hear a lot. But is it the right question? Sometimes that question can be a sign of bigger issues. What platforms should your business be on? What are you trying to achieve? Who are you hoping to speak to, with this ‘reach’ you strive for? Do you even like social media? How do you intend giving your business the multimedia, visual ‘assets’ it often takes to succeed? If Read more

By Colin Kelly, ago